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Support for Writing

Use this Support for Writing continuing professional development (CPD) package to improve rates of pupil progress in your primary class. As a teacher, these Support for Writing materials will help you to identify gaps in children's learning and provide guidance on identifying the 'next steps' to take.

Support for writing: Day 3

Introduction to the Support for writing CPD outline for schools that wish to improve rates of pupil progress in writing.

Session 1

Details of Session 1 of the Support for writing CPD. Includes a list of resources, an introduction to Support for Writing (SfW) and activities.
Session 2

Details of Session 2 of the Support for writing CPD. Includes a list of resources and activities, leading to comparing the teaching strategies used in shared, guided and one to one teaching of writing.
Session 3

Details of Session 3 of the Support for writing CPD. Includes a list of resources, followed by an overview of SfW text types guidance and activities.
Session 4

Details of Session 4 of the Support for writing CPD. Includes a list of resources and activities, leading to collaboratively planning a CPD.
Handouts and resources

List of handouts for support for writing CPD.

Pupil writing targets

Pupil Writing Targets focus on high value strands of objectives that make the greatest difference to improving writing attainment. They support teachers who have identified specific gaps in learning, using information from day to day and periodic assessment practices, to teach specific writing skills in guided sessions.

Steps in learning

Steps in Learning for each strand and year group include a progression summary outlining key aspects of children's progress and classroom examples, each showing three Steps in Learning.

Support for writing: Day 3 – Presentation slides

Presentation slides showing an overview of the continuing professional development (CPD) course on support for writing. Includes aims of the day, agenda of the course, objectives and the description of sessions 1 to 4.

Primary Framework for literacy: Text types

Introduces a range of text types for the three genres: Narrative, non-fiction and poetry.

Text type: Traditional tales guidance

An overview of traditional tales, with information on derivation and range and the historical importance of this text type. Traditional tales help children to explore and compare the different effects of vocabulary, patterns, structures, themes and styles and try these out in their own writing.

Text type: Non-fiction

An overview of non-fiction, with information on the guidance provided for each text type that falls under non-fiction.

Text type: Narrative

An overview of narrative, which includes specific features and structures of some narrative types and a table containing the generic structure, language features and knowledge for the writer. The narrative text type is a tool to help children organise their ideas and explore new ideas and experiences.

Text type: Poetry

An overview of narrative, which includes information on the range of poetry, a table showing the relationship between generic structure, language features and knowledge for the writer and links to units by year group. Poetry helps children become familiar with language techniques and make increasingly effective use of wordplay to explore and develop ideas.

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